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D. G. CLAPP.

FURNITUBE DRAWBR.

No. 399,598. Patented Mar. 12, 1889.

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DWIGHT C. CLAPP, OF OIVOSSO, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO DAVID M. ESTEY, OF SAME PLAGE.

` FU RNITU RE-'DRAWER.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 399,598, dated March 12, 1889.

Application filed September 10, 1888. Serial No. 285,044. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom it ma]] concrnf reason of the swelling' of the Wood-work, and

Be it known that I, DWIGHT C. CLAPP, a more particularly the sides, which bear upon citizen of the United States, and a resident of the top of the drawer-guide and bind it within 50 Owosso, in the county of Shiawassee and State the bureau, so that it is often necessary to reof Michigan, have invented certain new and sort to force to open the drawer, which not useful Improvements in Furniture-Drawers5 infrequently results in the disfigureinent of and I do hereby declare that the following is the article of furniture in which the drawer a full., clear, and exaetdescription of the inis placed. 55 Vention, which will enable others skillcd in It is the object of this invention to over- Io the art to which it appertains to make and come these obstacles in a simple and eifective use the same. manner; and by reference to the drawings it This invention relates to furniture-drawers. will bo seen that the en'ds of the drawer are The object is to produce a drawer which gradually inclined from the front 2 to a point 60 shall be of such construction that it will be near the back 3, at which point a shoulder, l,

preyented from binding against the guides by 5 is forined, either by making` it integral with any swelling of the same. l `urthermore, to the end itself, or by securing` it thereto in any produce a drawer which shall be simple of suitable manner, as by gluing. This shoulder construction, elificient and durable in use, and is designed to be of such a height that its top 65 which shall be comparatively inexpensive of will fill the opening` 5, so that the drawer will zo production. be prevented from dropping down or tilting lith these objects in View, the invention when being' drawn out. consists iu the improved construction and It will be seen at a glance that the only porcombination of parts of a furniture-drawer, tion of the drawer end which comes in contact 70 as will be hereinafter fully described in the with the guides is the top of the shoulder,

specifieation,illustrated in the drawings, and and that if this should have a tendency to pointed out in the claim. bind it will only have to be cut down a little In the aceompanying,` drawings, forniing` to overcoine this. Thus by construeting a part of this speciiication, and inv which like drawer 011 this principle all danger of the 75 lott rs of reference indieate corresponding same binding` in a piece of furniture will be par s, I have illustrated one form of drawer remoyed, andthis construction will be found embodying' the essential features of my inas cheap as the ordinary methods employed. vention, although the same may bc carried Having thus fully described my invention, into effect in other ways without departing what I claim as new, and desire to secure by So froin the spirit thereof. Letters Patent, is In the drawings, Figure i. is a lperspeetive A drawer having` the upper edges of its View of a portion of a bureau, showing` my ends inclined from the front to the back, and

improve-d drawer in place therein; and Fig. 2 having' upwardly-projecting Shoulders on the is a detail view of one of the ends. inclined edges, the height of which is equal 85 Referring` to the drawings, A designates a to the highest point of the inclined edge, sub- 40 bureau which is of the ordinary construction, stantially as described.

and is provided with guides I, on which the In testimony that I claim the foregoing as drawer B slides. As the drawer forms the esmy own I have hereunto aifiixed my signature sential feature of my invention, I will proin presence of two witnesses.

eeed to describe it minutely. DIVIGHT C. CLAPP. In furniture-drawers of ordinary construc- Titnessesz tion a great deal of trouble is often experi- E. L. BREWER,

eneed in opening1 and elosing the same7 by ROLLIN POND. 

